Teaching basic lab skillsfor research computing

Day 7: Mini-screencasts

Yesterday Jason and Greg experimented with breaking apart a 10 minute screencast on database grouping and aggregation into even more bite-sized pieces. We have two flavours today: point form notes with links to the screencasts, or point form notes with screencasts embedded. [Links no longer active, latest screencast on database aggregation as of January 2012.]

Feedback on this format would be really helpful. Are these chunks too small? Do you prefer embedding over linking, or vice versa? Also, we'd welcome any comments on the material itself, of course.